| European Mobility Week campaign countdown |
08-09-2010 |
| Only eight days until the start of European Mobility Week 2010 and already more than 1.000 towns and cities registered their participation online. The 2009 award winner illustrates a glimpse of planned events and activities, but there are many others. |
| CIVITAS II Final Brochure is available |
31-08-2010 |
| CIVITAS II has helped to create a common vision of what cleaner and better transport can look like ... and the view is clear and bright! This publication is intended as a final brochure covering CIVITAS II (2005 - 2009). It provides a summary of the experiences of the 17 demonstration cities, which developed, implemented and tested over 200 measures as part of CIVITAS II. |
| CIVITAS II Policy Advice Notes are available |
31-08-2010 |
| Lessons learned during the planning, implementation and operation phases of the activities of the 17 demonstration cities within CIVITAS II (2005 - 2009) are summarised in twelve Policy Advice Notes and give an idea on how to cope with urban transport problems which cities of the European Union have to face in the future. |
| Guidelines for high-quality public bus transport |
30-08-2010 |
| The European project PROCEED has developed guidelines to help decision makers and transport planners efficiently and effectively plan, develop, upgrade, finance and manage urban bus systems and related mobility services. |
| Develop your public transport market share |
26-08-2010 |
| Ad Personam is a Direct Marketing Programme for Public Transport. The project promotes Local Public Transport in medium-sized European cities and is focused more closely on 7 pilot projects in 7 different European countries. |
| Around the world in 80 days with Zero Emission Vehicles |
19-08-2010 |
| The Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign and Bruxelles-Environement invite you to the official welcome of the Zero Emissions Race in Brussels, Saturday 21st August. The ZERO Race is an 80 day race around the world with 100% electric cars, running on 100% renewable energies, starting on 16 August in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| Twelve guidelines for implementing urban transport innovation |
19-08-2010 |
| The European FP7 project NICHES+ has developed a set of twelve practical guidelines for implementers of urban transport innovation. |
| Mobility management solutions for ageing societies (AENEAS) |
10-08-2010 |
| A new 54-page guidance booklet has been published by the European funded AENEAS project, containing a comprehensive collection of innovative "soft" measures that can help improve the mobility of older people. |
| Seamless travel throughout Europe on a single smart card |
22-07-2010 |
| The Interoperable Fare Management Project (IFM Project) aims to provide travellers throughout Europe with shared types of contact-less tickets. Recently, eTicketing experts from all over the globe came to listen to and discuss the final results of the EU-funded project. |
| Traffic Snake Game in Alba-Iulia and in Bucharest (Romania) |
22-07-2010 |
| Romanian schools played the “Traffic Snake Game” campaign in May-June. The campaign brought about a 50% increase in use of sustainable transport for travel to school - whilst playing the game, over 90% of children walked, cycled or took public transport. |
| European indicators to assess accessibility in public transport |
20-07-2010 |
| The European funded MEDIATE project has recently produced a set of accessibility indicators it has identified for urban public transport systems. These indicators highlight different aspects of accessibility within a city, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of a local public transport system, specific to that city. |
| Developing Mobility Plans in Bucharest (Romania) |
18-07-2010 |
| COMMERCE (Creating Optimal Mobility Measures to Enable Reduced Commuter Emissions ) is a three year project IEE European Commission funded project. It aims to improve the number and the quality of Mobility Plans developed by small and medium sized companies. The project provides tools and standards based on best practice across Europe. |
| Mobility management for events and recreation |
07-07-2010 |
| EPOMM, the European Platform on Mobility Management, has just launched its new e-update. The latest edition focuses on managing travel to events and recreation. Organising an event raises many challenges, not least managing how travel to and from the event is managed. |
| Counting eco-trips around Europe |
01-07-2010 |
| As the last few months of the CONNECT project draw near, schools throughout Europe are gathering the results of the Traffic Snake Game and an ECO-TRIP campaign winner has been chosen by the international jury. |
| OBIS Newsletter reporting the Berlin Workshop |
08-06-2010 |
| The OBIS project aims to show that bike sharing is an attractive and effective mode of sustainable daily transport. |
| EC releases handbook of best practice on secure truck parking |
07-06-2010 |
| Concluding a pilot project - known as SETPOS (secure European truck park operational services) - the European Commission has released a handbook of best practice on secure European truck parking. |
| CATCH - Carbon Aware Travel CHoice |
07-06-2010 |
| CATCH is a project with the aim to develop and promote a trusted and credible open knowledge platform targeted primarily at decision-makers in cities with the ultimate goal to help reduce CO2 emissions from the urban transport sector. |
